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Disney’s Searchlight Takes Wes Anderson’s Much Anticipated “The French Dispatch” Off the Schedule Again

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The French Dispatch has been dispatched.

Wes Anderson’s newest creation was supposed to be released today after opening in Cannes.

Alas, all of that went away and “The French Dispatch” was moved to October 16th. Now Disney’s Searchlight has been dimmed, and Anderson and pals are off the schedule.

Here’s one quality film that I think would be swell on Netflix or VOD. Even though we always want a big screen release, the Anderson oeuvre lends itself a smaller space. Eventually it could be released in theaters.

I don’t think we’ll see any of these movies until mid January through the end of February, when the new Oscar eligibility ends. Without a vaccine it’s just not going to happen. Wait for news about the James Bond “No Time to Die” gets pushed past November 20th.

“The French Dispatch” by the way has the usual cast of Anderson characters including Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Bill Murray Owen Wilson, Liev Schreiber, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, and Anjelica Huston, .

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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